I wouldnt go that far.

If you are used to typing on a nice mechanical keyboard (one for $100), you will notice the difference when moving to lowest cost possible membrane.

That’s the way.

During our WLAN test, the Intel test device performed slightly better than the Snapdragon variant (both 64 Wh). At 150 cd/m², we measured 17:41 hours, which is almost three hours more than the Snapdragon model, and at full brightness, we noted just under 9 hours. A full charge takes 125 minutes with the device switched on (80% after ~60 minutes).

This is a damning result for Qualcomm.

I don’t think this aimed at a regular hipster (what that means); it’s a bit too nerdy IMO.

Not enough competition for that. That being said AMD did add HBM for certain SKUs a few years ago.

I might be wrong on this, but for gaming HBM isn’t necessarily a silver bullet in terms of performance; a lot of it depends on the overall GPU architecture.

This OEM puts Waifus on their GPUs:

Earlier versions of the Micro Journal had small LCD displays, but the Micro Journal Rev.7 uses a LilyGo T5 ePaper display with an ESP32-S3 drive board. The screen is a 4.7 inch, 960 x 540 pixel greyscale display with low power consumption… and a low screen refresh rate.

A 4.7" seems way too small even for a portable word processor. A 7" or 8" would be much more comfortable.

The Gamers Nexus team conducted a sniff test of the fragrance module using different noses. The general consensus was that it smells like a car air freshener, a free perfume sample kiosk from a mall, clean laundry, perfume, and fabric softener.

Not a word about an “ocean-thrmed” fragrance or a “more floral scent” as described by the OEM.

This is a very solid device for $350.

Some users online have also recommended a virtual machine (VM) running an older version of Android to play 32-bit games. But this solution hasn’t worked for me, likely due to the intrinsic hardware limitations here.

I wonder if this refers to running the VM on a PC or on a smartphone. Are modern smartphones SoCs performant enough to run a 32 bit Android VM for some older games?

That’s the optimistic timeline, we still have to actually get there first.

I am sure you can come with what a pessimistic timeline would look like.

I am surprised that Samsung isn’t more explicit about the use cases for such a device, but then again, I guess they have fully confirmed all the features.

Edward Zitron is always a fun read. Looking forward to checking out this post when I get back home.

Are we ever going to get liquid cooled SSD plates on the consumer side? Might be a bit overkill, but when has that stopped anyone in the enthusiast space?

Thanks for letting us know! 🥰

My recommendion is not think to hard about federation, inter-instance interactions and so on…

Best to just contribute/read communities that interest you and you’ll figure things out as you go along.

To be fair, I believe running on PCIE 4.0 doesn’t really impact performance (it’s like 1-2 percentage point, which is IMO not significant).

Don’t worry, they are just into you. It’s your one in a quadrillion personality and your big heart!

Their custom domain business can’t be big, I am assuming they merely get some referral commission from sending business to a registrar, that can’t be a lot of money.

Or am I missing something?

Last but not least, there is the eternal question of commercialization of such breakthrough technology. The scientists have already started to work with LinkZill, a Hangzhou-based tech company commercializing thin-film transistor (TFT) technologies, to create a programmable circuit to drive the new displays. They also have a prototype active-matrix micro-PeLED display "driven by a TFT backplane, [and] capable of showing complex images and video clips.

Good to see them work on commercialization, although I suspect the first few generations will be extremely expensive.